Part of the "AAdvantage" of having all these miles and with the new award cancellation policies is that you can make speculative bookings, especially in this challenging environment where flights are always getting canceled.

I put 2 awards on hold on different flights on the same day. AA canceled one of them and now the price is 3x on the one they canceled.

Interesting enough, I ticketed 2 flights to the same destination on the same day and those are still standing.

I'm not blaming AA for doing this.

But I would like to be given a choice between flight #1 and flight #2 instead of one of them getting randomly whacked.

Is there a strategy where your tickets aren't going to get whacked? Do I now need to worry about TICKETED flights getting canceled?